Vincent Mclean is an ex-punk and sociopathic force of nature, a bad boy made good who returns to his home town at the start of the New Labour era with a fistful of dollars and some big ideas for regenerating the old mining communities by developing an innovative brewery business. Despite some local political opposition it all goes surprisingly well until he has the audacious idea of trying to sell his English beer to the Belgians with disastrous but hilarious consequences. Beer Balls and The Belgian mafia is street savvy crime fiction for the 21st century.